{"id":232557,"date":"2020-03-08T17:20:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T16:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/?p=232557"},"modified":"2020-03-08T17:20:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T16:20:27","slug":"video-vaea-verbeeck-still-growing-make-your-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/en\/video-vaea-verbeeck-still-growing-make-your-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"[Video] Vaea Verbeeck: Still Growing &#8211; Make Your Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"erdyt-6ae5b1d43b691\" data-id=\"6ae5b1d43b691\" class=\"erd-youtube-responsive erd-ytlazyload\"   style=\"width:100%;max-width:100%;margin-right:auto !important;margin-left:auto !important;display:block;clear:both;position:relative;\"><div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\"><div class=\"erd-ytplay\" id=\"erdytp-6ae5b1d43b691\" data-vid=\"ygYZd4LSCwo\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ygYZd4LSCwo?rel=0&&autoplay=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/ygYZd4LSCwo\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Breaking through to the professional level is one of the hardest things to do in sports. Years of hard training, traveling to competitions far and wide and sustaining injuries await all those who wish to pursue a career as a professional mountain bike athlete. For Vaea Verbeeck, years of hard work and dedication left her within inches of a podium spot. In order to break through to the next level, she had to take a step back and remember why she began racing in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking through to the professional level is one of the hardest things to do in sports. Years of hard training, traveling to competitions far and wide and sustaining injuries await all those who wish to pursue a career as a professional mountain bike athlete. For Vaea Verbeeck, years of hard work and dedication left her within inches of a podium spot. In order to break through to the next level, she had to take a step back and remember why she began racing in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236505,"featured_media":232559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3678],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.3 (Yoast SEO v19.7.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>[Video] Vaea Verbeeck: Still Growing - Make Your Mark | MTB-MAG.COM<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/en\/video-vaea-verbeeck-still-growing-make-your-mark\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Video] Vaea Verbeeck: Still Growing - Make Your Mark\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Breaking through to the professional level is one of the hardest things to do in sports. 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